Sellafield Ltd trainees raise over £10,000 for Great North Air Ambulance Service
A group of trainees, made up of graduates and apprentices have been raising money over the past 12 months for this year’s chosen charity, Great North Air Ambulance (GNASS). They have collected over £10,000 that includes funding from the company’s Peer to Peer scheme, match funding and a company donation.
Alice Nash, a Business Trainee at Sellafield said: “We’ve had a brilliant year of fundraising on the Graduate Council, with some of our favourites being our Crazy Bingo, the monthly pub quizzes, gaming tournaments and sporting events. We’ve also had great support from other teams who organised a charity Winter Ball and World Kindness Day bake sale.”
Another employee, Alex Jenkins organised a Santa collection across multiple Cumbrian offices and raised nearly £6,500, which is on top of the £25,000 he has raised for GNAAS over the last 10 years.
The Great North Air Ambulance provides air ambulance services across the North-East, Cumbria and North Yorkshire and are entirely funded by charity. They bring pioneering pre-hospital care to the scene, rescuing hundreds of severely injured or ill patients every year.
Natasha Banks of GNASS said: “It’s been great to work with Sellafield Ltd and their enthusiastic young people who have helped raise the profile of the service we offer in the community. We need to raise £8.5 million a year to remain operational and our critical care teams responded to more than 2,100 incidents in 2023, which was a record high for our charity.”
Copeland MP Trudy Harrison joined the trainees for the presentation. She said: “This once again shines a light on the excellent young people at Sellafield, who do great work in the community for such important organisations as GNASS, and of course are the future pioneers of the nuclear industry. Congratulations on another impressive fundraising effort.”
